Monday, June 04, 2007

The Eurofighter:General Specs.

The Mauser BK-27 Cannon

The Eurofighter has a nominal Combat thrust of ~40500lbs

The Eurofighter:Armed with Air to Air Missiles

Crew: 1 or 2

DIMENSIONS

Length: 15.96 m (52 ft 5 in)
Wingspan: 10.95 m (35 ft 11 in)
Height: 5.28 m (17 ft 4 in)
Wing area: 51.2 m²(551.1 ft² )
Empty weigh
t: 11 000 kg (24,250 lb)
Loaded weight: 15 550 kg (34,280 lb)
Max takeoff weigh
t: 23 500 kg (51,809 lb)

Performance
Maximum speed: Mach 2.25, 2390 km/h at high altitude; Mach 1.2, 1470 km/h at sea level; (1,480 mph;915 mph) supercruise Mach 1.3+ at altitude with typical air-to-air  armament

Range: 1390 km (864 mi)
Ferry range :3790 km (2,300 mi)
Runway Requiremen
t :700m
Service ceiling: 18300 m (60,000 ft )
Rate of climb: >315 m/s (62,007 ft/min)
Wing loading: 311 kg/m² (63.7 lb/ft²)


Armament:The Typhoon has 13 external stations for weapons and fuel( five (including one wet) under the fuselage and four (including one wet) under each wing), 4 on each wing and 5 on the fuselage with a total payload of some 6500kg (this may now be 7500kg+)
Gun: 1x 27 mm Mauser BK-27 cannon
                       Like the rest of the aircraft, reducing both the drag and Radar Cross Section were a consideration in the placement of the hardpoints and pylons. All wing mounted missiles are launched from GEC developed missile pylons, or Wing Pylon Station Units (WPSU).        
Air-to-Air missiles:
  1)AIM-9 Sidewinder
  2)AIM-132 ASRAAM*
  3) AIM-120 AMRAAM**
  4) IRIS-T and in the future MBDA Meteor
[*The two outboard-most rails are for the exclusive use of Short Range Air to Air Missiles (SRAAMs)]
[**In addition to the wing pylons there are four conformal recessed troughs under the fuselage for the exclusive use of Medium Range Air to Air Missiles (MRAAMs). These mounts were designed for an AMRAAM class missile but the front two stations can accept both the British Sky Flash and Italian Aspide systems]
Air-to-Ground missiles:
1)AGM-84 Harpoon
2)AGM-88 HARM
3)ALARMs
4)Storm Shadow (AKA "Scalp EG")
5)Brimstone, Taurus, Penguin
    and in the future AGM Armiger
[In total the basic Typhoon configuration can carry, in various combinations, up to 10 missiles, two more than the U.S. F-22 Raptor and the same as an Su-35/30 in basic configurations]
Bombs: Paveway 2, Paveway 3, Enhanced Paveway, JDAM
Laser designator, e.g. LISTENING pod



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